"In art economy is always beauty."
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"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance."
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"A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything that was literature has fallen from me. There are no more books to be written, thank God. This then? This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty . . . what you will."
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"Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing."
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"When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art."
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"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."
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"Resolve and thou art free."
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"Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow."
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"Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man."
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"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art."
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"One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art."
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"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it."
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"Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius."
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"Art raises its head where creeds relax."
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"Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth. It is thy desire in us that desireth. It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also. We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us: Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all."
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"He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage."
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"I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary."
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"Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."
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"As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!"
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"The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up."
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